Lilly Dancyger is the author of First Love, a collection of personal and critical essays on female friendship, and Negative Space, a reported and illustrated memoir about art, addiction, and inheritance. Dancyger is the editor of Burn It Down, a critically-acclaimed anthology of essays on women's anger.

Melissa Febos is the bestselling author of four books, including Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative. An NEA and Guggenheim fellow, she is a professor at The University of Iowa.

Alexander Chee is the author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night and How To Write An Autobiographical Novel, a collection of essays. He is a recipient of the Whiting Writers Award and an NEA in Fiction and is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College.

CJ Hauser is a multigenre, nonbinary, queer amphibian of a person. Their memoir The Crane Wife is published by Doubleday and the paperback is coming in hot this July. They are also the author of two novels, Family of Origin and The From-Aways. They teach creative writing at Colgate University.

Aisha Sabatini Sloan is the author of the essay collections The Fluency of Light, Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, the book-length essay Borealis, and a collaboration with her father called Captioning the Archives. She is an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the University of Michigan.